Teaching the Healthcare Workers of Liberia
On her first ever deployment, Julia Hollingsworth saw a country that looked a lot like her birthplace of Trinidad.
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On her first ever deployment, Julia Hollingsworth saw a country that looked a lot like her birthplace of Trinidad.
To stop infected bodies from spreading the disease in Sierra Leone, health officials persuaded local leaders to change how villagers mourned.
John Nel was sent to build a lifesaving Ebola clinic in the middle of the Liberian jungle. It opened too late to help fight this outbreak, but could help prevent a new one.
How poverty, density, and fragmentation in Sierra Leone's capital city fueled the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
Liberian schools forced to close because of Ebola are set to reopen February 2, but the country's education system could look vastly different than it did a year ago.
Delecia Jaffan is dead. She might have died of Ebola. Or maybe not. Either way, the body is treated the same.
Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky's 2,500 soldiers have spent months battling a rampant killer in Liberia. Is the fight over, or has the frontline shifted?
Hatch, a photojournalist and visiting professor at Allegheny College, is in the West African country covering the U.S. military's efforts to assist the Liberian government with the Ebola outbreak.
At the Ebola Treatment Unit in Tappita, the goal is to get a confirmation that a patient has the virus in two hours, not two weeks.
In episode 2 of The Last Hunger Season film series, produced by Josh Courter and Guilia Longo Courter, Pulitzer Center grantee Roger Thurow chronicles the daily lives of Leonida Wanya's family.
Uganda suffers from a sanitation crisis, as many villagers nor the urban poor have access to toilets. An estimated 75% of the country's disease burden is linked to poor sanitation and hygiene.
The coffee farmers of Guatemala's Western Highlands try to stay one step ahead of coffee rust. Despite support from USAID, the disease threatens the livelihood of growers.